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Tjede Peckes (* around 1500 in Padingbüttel-Oberstrich , † December 23, 1517 in Wremen-Wremer Tief ) was a Wurth Frisian flag maid . In this region she is also known as the Joan of Arc of the North .

Life

She was born the daughter of free farmers and was a member of a women's movement . Its members saw themselves as the successors of the virgines capitales , the four main holy virgins of Christianity ( Catherine of Alexandria , Barbara of Nicomedia , Margaret of Antioch and Dorothea ). Although unmarried all their lives, they refused to go to the monastery, which was customary in such cases, but used this circumstance to be able to participate in political life. Tjede Peckes also worked on the Wurster farmers' councils, which only allowed women to participate as virgins .

At the end of 1517, when the Wurster Frisians defended themselves against the taxes they were supposed to pay to Bremen's Archbishop Christoph von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel for their newly diked land , he sent a large army of mercenaries to put down the uprising. After bitter fighting, the battle of the Wremer Tief took place on December 23rd . In addition to the men, a group of around 500 girls and women braced themselves against the overwhelming power of Bremen. Peckes carried the banner of the Frisians , which is said to have shown an image of death. She fell at the age of seventeen when she was attacked with a sword by a mercenary .

Emperor Maximilian I later regretted her death with the words "Truly, it is a pity for this flag maiden, she could have become the mother of heroes."

Appreciations

• The primary school in Wremen is named after Tjede Peckes.
• The Lower Saxony Deichmuseum Dorum has been exhibiting a roughly life-size statue of the flag maiden since 2001 .
• In Dorum, the ring-shaped Tjede-Peckes-Straße runs in a new development area.
• At the Wremer Tief, a memorial plaque for Peckes was set up on January 27, 2007 as part of a ceremony held in Low German .

literature

• Wilhelm Ernst Asbeck : Tjede Peckes. The flag maiden of the country Wursten . Berlin 1938.
• Felicitas Gottschalk : The green glow of the sky. Life and death of the Tjede Peckes. A fictional biography of a woman at the beginning of the 16th century . Oldenburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-899-95679-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Pollmann: Bremen – Oldenburg. The most beautiful coastal, moor and Geest hikes . Oberhaching 2011, ISBN 978-3-763-34405-5 , page 63.
2. ↑ Tjede-Peckes-Grundschule website . Retrieved February 16, 2014.
3. ↑ Object details on the exhibit in the Lower Saxony Deichmuseum Dorum , on collectconcept.de . Retrieved December 5, 2013.